1 Vorrei ringraziare G.P. Brogiolo per le discussioni avute su alcuni dei siti considerati e, più in generale, sull'argomento di questo lavoro. . 4 Fac interim parvam domum pro templo; qui post te veniet, faciet porticum; sequens aliud... more
This paper traces the inception and criticism of John Boswell's revolutionary thesis.
Course: HI733 Self & Society in the Middle Ages (instructor: Dr. Bernice Kaczynski).
Course: HI733 Self & Society in the Middle Ages (instructor: Dr. Bernice Kaczynski).
Pfister, Rudolf (2007) ÜBER FRAUENHEILKUNDE IM MITTELALTERLICHEN CHINA: Idealisierte die Medizin ein androgynes Körperbild oder nicht? Beherrscht darin der Blutaspekt die Frau? Wann entstand eine Heilkunde speziell für Frauen?... more
UDK 94 (497.15) (049.3) Emir Filipović VLASTELA ILIRSKOG GRBOVNIKA 1 THE NOBILITY OF THE ILLYRIAN ARMORIAL Sažetak Tekst je prikaz knjige Srđana Rudića, Властела илирског грбовника, Историјски институт, Посебна издања, књ. 52, Београд,... more
Although heraldry in Croatian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian historiography keeps important place, it is a field which is not systematically researched and evaluated. It means that continuous interest for helardry, as auxiliary historical... more
What is in a word? The use of the Chu language word for ‘to suckle, milk’ is investigated in the light of recently discovered manuscripts, which further our knowledge of cultural aspects of ‘milktrees’, and bring back to life now obsolete... more
Körper-und Medizingeschichte des alten und mittelalterlichen Chinas, 1997–2007 Rudolf Pfister Keywords: historiography of the body and medicine; ancient and medieval China; sexual body techniques; kallisthenics; Dunhuang medical... more
There are three major cultural uses of the hooligan concept that concern the discussion of Norman Manea’s last memoir-novel, referred to in the title of the present paper. Mircea Eliade used the term in reference to the amoral young... more
O serie de articole recente au abordat iconografia sirenei bicaudate pe cahle, susţinând sau contrazicând identificarea ei cu Melusina. 1 Reprezentările de secol XV şi XVI ale legendei Melusinei (contemporane aşadar cahlelor cu sirene)... more
Στο κείμενο αυτό ερμηνεύεται η μεταλλαγή που παρατηρείται στη Ζαγορά, κατά τον 18ο και 19ο αιώνα, στο σύστημα μεταβίβασης των αγαθών στις επόμενες γενεές και ειδικά στο σύστημα «προίκισης» των γυναικών.
En este artículo se compara el tratamiento de la terminología mística en una traducción antigua y en otra contemporánea de Ruusbroec. La primera traducción, de finales del siglo XVII, es indirecta, a través de la traducción latina de... more
The presented study investigates the pathologically changed animal bones from medieval Emden, Germany. Conditions are described, interpreted and compared with material from Ireland (a regional study including several historical sites),... more
Fiasko operacji dardanelskiej, a zwłaszcza sromotna przegrana w bitwie o cieśninę, do jakiej doszło 18 marca 1915, uświadomiły Aliantom, że czas wreszcie porzucić nadzieję na wejście jakiejkolwiek jednostki nawodnej na Morze Marmara.... more
Babylonian. Yemenite, Sefardi, Byzantine and Ashkenazi manuscripts, as well as several editions, for Targum Jonathan -the more useful computation becomes, which has made enormous inroads in today's stemmatology. The advantage of automated... more
Firenze trasfigura nella Commedia da città storica a "urbs imago mundi" atta a rappresentare l'universale decadenza. Il saggio investiga questo percorso figurativo, illustrandone gli snodi fondamentali: la critica dantesca... more
E. Brilli, Reminiscenze scritturali (e non) nelle epistole dantesche. In: La Cultura, 2007, 439-455.
Il saggio esamina le reminiscenze di provenienza scritturale delle tre epistole della stagione arrighiana (VI, VII e VIII secondo la numerazione in vigore). L'intento è duplice. In primo luogo, riconsiderare i principi critici che hanno... more
A partire dai primi commentatori della Commedia, l'apparire inaspettatto al fianco della Fortuna di un villano nella celebre terzina del XV canto dell'Inferno ha promosso molteplici letture. L'articolo discute l'interpretazione... more
The architecture of the Palazzo Francesconi. Baldassarre Peruzzi: a career spent between Rome and Siena On the basis of new documents and a detailed analysis of its fabric, the article examines the architecture of the Palazzo Francesconi... more
The Mass Immigration to Israel in the 1950’s included over one million immigrants from Europe, Asia and Africa which Immigrated to Israel in a relatively short time. These people, who came from the death–camps in Europe, and from refuges... more
Reviewed by Dagmar Freist in Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 49, January 1998, 178-81
The history of law in Iceland is remarkable for both the respect with which the Icelanders held the law and the attention to detail and concern for the well-being of the population as a whole which the law showed in its canons. Several... more
marriage cases re-defining some of the essential features of Western marriage, they were aware that they were passing new and innovative legislation. However, despite the novelty of their policies, the transition between the absence of a... more
Currently we know quite a lot about the legal framework surrounding marriage in the middle ages. We know how the law developed, we know about the development of the church courts and about their application of the law. But we know very... more
The implementation of the canon law rules of marriage by the medieval Church has been seen as one of the major turning points in the history of western Europe, 2 and several studies in the last twenty years have treated the development... more
"The aim of this paper is related with the evaluation of some indicators emerging form recent archaeological and zoo-archaeological research in Italy, especially in the region of Tuscany. In particular we will focus our attention on... more
"The paper considers all the problems related to the planning of a digital tool for processing faunal remains with the use of a GIS (Geographic Information System) solution. Archaeological data processing can be done on different levels:... more
Excavations carried out at Dudley Castle recovered an assemblage of animal bones dominated by horse from the vaulted cellar beneath the Great Hall. The deposit dates to c. 1710 and appears to have been the result of partial butchery of... more
"There is a persistent myth to the effect that Norway is and always has been the odd one out in the sphere of Nordic furniture design. But irrespective of what we ourselves might think, it is a fact that when it comes to international... more
One of the fundamental tasks of medieval kings was to be a peacemaker, that is, to settle disputes and to prevent new ones from arising. The later medieval kings of France, whose councilors probably thought more about kingship than anyone... more
Four compositions in the first layer of the Old Hall Manuscript (GB-Lbl, Add. MS 57950) are attributed to R. Chirbury (or R. Chyrbury). This article argues that the Robert Chirbury who ended his days as Dean at the Collegiate Church of St... more